FOMO
noun
Anxiety that an exciting or interesting event may currently be happening elsewhere; abbreviation of "fear of missing out."
1. You have nightmares about not being invited anywhere on the weekends.
2. Checking your social media accounts is like some sort of masochistic torture.
3. Nothing drives you more insane than people telling inside jokes from a night you missed.
4. It doesn't mater if you're exhausted...
5. On your death bed...
6. Or financially incapable of going out...
7. When a friend tells you they don't feel up for going out, your brain melts.
8. If you don't go out, you imagine that this is the kind of thing you'll miss:
9. (Even though this is what "going out" looks like 90% of the time).
10. This is your biggest fear:
11. You have the texting finesse of an elven sniper.
12. For you, being included has nothing to do with age...
13. Or general skill level...
14. Or superfluous qualifiers like, oh I don't know, a baby.
15. The only thing that matters is that you're not missing anything, and you've taken photographs to prove it.
16. Even when you're already out with people, you like to make sure there's nowhere else you could be.
17. You're not afraid of being called a tag-along.
18. You may or may not have resorted to some questionable tactics to stay in the loop.
19. Because that's better than doing this on a Friday night.
